His family immigrated to the United States in 1882, where Leyendecker studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and apprenticed with the J. Manz Engraving Company.

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Joseph Christian Leyendecker was a highly successful American commercial artist. View Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s 626 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks ...

J.C. Leyendecker is considered one of the great artists of the Golden Age of Illustration—and this aesthetic inspired a new animated series.

Leyendecker's images touting Kuppenheimer suits and Kellogg's Corn Flakes stand in marked contrast to the fine art that dominates the museum's collection.

The exhibit, which opens Friday at the Fullerton Museum Center, features Leyendecker’s war posters, advertising art and magazine covers, including 18 of the 322 covers he painted for the ...

Born in Germany in 1874, Joe Leyendecker moved to Illinois with his family at age 8. A determined youth, he illustrated religious pamphlets during the day while taking night classes at the Art ...

Rockwell strongly admired Leyendecker, Hargraves said. He observed Leyendecker's work, even his walk and movement and style, his brushstrokes and the people he painted, and they talked freely about ...

Leyendecker told Beach to burn his papers and art upon his death, in 1951, but luckily a few of the pictures were spared.